funeral

I am going down to Shaftesbury (5 hour drive) on Wednesday for my late aunt's funeral. She was 96 and the last in my adoptive family of her generation. Thus passes an era. I am looking forward to seeing my cousins, but it is sad that it takes an event like this to bring us together. Hatches, matches and dispatches are key events which act as magnets to draw people. I guess that, if you are old fashioned you might prefer that to be 'matches, hatches and dispatches'.